MECC Foundation to Host 48th Annual John Fox, Jr. 文学节特色 the Origin Project with Barbara Kingsolver and Adriana Trigiani
大石缝, VA — The MECC Foundation is pleased to announce the 48th annual John Fox, Jr. 文学节. The event will feature authors Adriana Trigiani and Barbara Kingsolver, 周三, 4月17日上午10点开始.m. 到中午. The festival is free and open to the public.
In coordination with the festival event, the MECC Foundation will host the 37th Annual Lonesome Pine Short Story Contest and the 20th Annual Lonesome Pine Poetry Contest. The deadline for submitting entries is Tuesday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. 参赛类别包括成人, high school (grades 9 through 12), and middle school (grades 5 through 8) categories. Contest rules and information about the festival is available on the MECC Foundation website at www.作为国内.edu/jffestival. Winners of the contest will be announced during the 文学节 Event. All winners will receive a cash prize.
The MECC Foundation will welcome students from the Origin Project, Trigiani’s in-school Virginia writing program, 参加节日. The Origin Project will unveil its 10th Anniversary Cookbook in memory of the project’s co-founder Nancy Bolmeier Fisher. The cookbook features recipes from the Origin Project’s participating students, 老师, 特邀作者和朋友. Cookbooks will be available to purchase at the festival. All proceeds will benefit the Origin Project.
第48届约翰·福克斯. festival will have a featured discussion from both Trigiani and Kingsolver. 演讲结束后, the MECC Foundation will feature a special luncheon with House at the 小约翰·福克斯. home in 大石缝 beginning at 12:30 p.m. Tickets for the luncheon are $30 and can be ordered by calling the MECC Foundation office at 276-523-7466. Tickets are limited, so please reserve early for this event.
Adriana Trigiani is The New York Times bestselling author of 20 books in fiction and nonfiction, 包括《靠谱的买球网站》, 未完成的美好, 不要在餐桌上唱歌, 和露西亚, 露西娅, and she is published in 38 languages around the world. 她是热门播客的主持人, 你读什么，你就是什么, in conversation with the luminaries of our time about the books that built their souls. Adriana is an award-winning playwright, television writer/producer and filmmaker. She wrote and directed the major motion picture adaptation of her debut novel 大石缝, adapted her novel Very Valentine for television and directed Then Came You. She wrote and directed the documentary film, 大时代的女王, winner of the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film 节日 and Audience award at the Palm Springs International Film 节日. The film was also featured at the London and Hong Kong International Film festivals. Trigiani grew up in the 大石缝 Virginia where she co-founded The Origin Project, an in-school writing program serving over 2,700名学生在阿巴拉契亚. In 2023, she was knighted with the Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia by President Sergio Mattarella of Italy. She is proud to serve on the New York State Council on the 艺术 and lives in New York City with her family.
Barbara Kingsolver is a novelist, essayist, and poet. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead, a contemporary re-telling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia at the onset of the opioid epidemic. 除了恶魔铜头, her bestselling works include The Lacuna, 毒木圣经, 豆子树, 和动物, 蔬菜, 奇迹. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
For more information on the MECC Foundation, please visit our website at www.作为国内foundation.org.
